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[atheneglaukopis]

Well, I'm a leetle bit tired right now, but feeling accomplished. I hid out the whole week at home because we were having a mini-course on Iranian this week, and the visitor who was giving it was hosted in the graduate student office space. I didn't feel like going, and I had no good excuse, so I just lay low so I wouldn't make it painfully obvious

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[fpb]

Baking bread is not actually very hard, and it is incredibly satisfying in terms of the wonderful smell and the sheer achievement of making "the stuff of life" for yourself. The only nuisance is that it takes a considerable amount of bare-handed effort: mixing it takes time and is both boring and tiring, and dough gets in your hands and under your fingernails, no matter what you do. If you wash it off straight away when it's still fresh, you have to spend minutes over the basin getting rid of every bit; if you let it, as I sometimes tried, dry out, it removes faster, but does a fair (and painful!) imitation of waxing one's hair out. (Which I never tried, but I have plenty of gay and female friends who did!) That is why I use a breadmaker. These days they are quite cheap and efficient, and you can skip all the stupid bits and still get your own home-made bread and fill your house with that amazing smell